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"... too enthusiastic about creating abstractions." Like others, I'm eager to hear more of your thoughts. I also have a theory. A bit of a riff on Rob Pike's
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"... too enthusiastic about creating abstractions."
Like others, I'm eager to hear more of your thoughts.
I also have a theory. A bit of a riff on Rob Pike's observation (IIRC): "Show me your data and I'll understand your code".
Enterprise-y (corp IT) projects are data centric. Functional programming emphasizes flow-of-control over the data flow. Even more so than functional decompensation (imperative programming) and object-oriented.
Donald Norman's notion of "affordances" applies. Any one can certainly "do COBOL" in Scheme, but pushing that rope requires uncommon insight and intention.